As controversy continues to rage over the actual cause of the death of Butaleja Woman Member of Parliament, Cerinah Nebanda, police has said they are holding a gentleman to help them in the investigations relating to the death of the youthful legislator.
Ms Nabakooba said the man was present when the MP was rushed to hospital, and had provided the police with “important information”.
The 24 year old MP died on Friday night at Mukwaya General Hospital in Nsambya, an upscale suburb in Kampala and controversy still surrounds the cause of her death.
Dr Chris Baryomunsi, a parliamentary commissioner and medical doctor who came as Parliament's representative at the post-mortem exercise, ruled out the possibility of drug abuse and natural causes. “During the post-mortem, we were able to exclude conditions that kill you suddenly, things like heart attack, blood pressure, blood clot. We also excluded any form of injuries caused by way of using weapons, strangulation, physical struggle or rape,” he said at a press conference yesterday. “And we can’t say she died of drug overdose because we all know she never used drugs and she was not also a drunkard.”
Since the official post-mortem report is not yet out, Dr. Baryomunsi has called upon the public to stop building up theories to the death of the MP.
Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said the man in custody is an associate of Adam Suleiman Kalungi, the late MP’s boyfriend, who is believed to have been with her in her last moments of life, and who the police want to interview. Kalungi is at the moment on the run, a fact that made Police Chief Kale Kayihura refer to him as "the key suspect" in the case.
The 24 year old MP died on Friday night at Mukwaya General Hospital in Nsambya, an upscale suburb in Kampala and controversy still surrounds the cause of her death.
Dr Chris Baryomunsi, a parliamentary commissioner and medical doctor who came as Parliament's representative at the post-mortem exercise, ruled out the possibility of drug abuse and natural causes. “During the post-mortem, we were able to exclude conditions that kill you suddenly, things like heart attack, blood pressure, blood clot. We also excluded any form of injuries caused by way of using weapons, strangulation, physical struggle or rape,” he said at a press conference yesterday. “And we can’t say she died of drug overdose because we all know she never used drugs and she was not also a drunkard.”
Since the official post-mortem report is not yet out, Dr. Baryomunsi has called upon the public to stop building up theories to the death of the MP.
“Now it is premature to know what exactly killed her. We hope by the time for burial, we will have definite information,” Dr Baryomunsi said. “Let’s not start building conspiracy theories; let’s let all the experts to do their work and we will come up with a report on what killed Nebanda. We hope police will do a good job, too, in constructing the information.”
Dr Baryomunsi added that Parliament has hired an independent pathologist and will arrange for body and tissue samples to be taken to a laboratory in South Africa for more analysis.
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